What To Do In the Off-Season

Welcome to the dreaded February, the month when sub-zero temperatures attack and there’s no NaNo to sustain us. Whatever shall we do?

For those of you playing the home game, WE WRITE! (Seriously, you didn’t see that one coming???)

All kidding aside, the off months are tough because we don’t have the collective sturm und drang of thousands of participants, pounding away at their keyboards with their hats askew, banging out 50,000 words or more of their novel.

Don’t despair, Dear Chiwrimo! We have resources!

First, there are two mid-year events called Camp NaNo – one in April, and one in July. We even have write-ins planned for both, one on April 11th, and one on July 18th. The links jump you to our Facebook event pages.

Which is a nice segue into my next resource, our Facebook group. (Like how I did that, all transitiony and stuff?) Our little Facebook group has grown to over 800 members! (Thank you, you awesome Chiwrimos, you!) If you haven’t joined yet, what are you waiting for? Visit today and join the conversation – there’s humor, and impromptu writeins, and ideas, and support – everything a growing writer needs to take on the New York Times Bestseller List!

We also have a Twitter stream, @Chiwrimo. If you like brief, and you like it in 140 characters or less, then this is your oyster.

And finally, drum roll please – I found the A-Z Blog Challenge last year while poking around on NaNoWriMo.org (you know, world headquarters?) for ideas on what to do next. It’s a month-long challenge where writers post a blog a day for every day except Sunday, and the only stipulation is you must follow the alphabet theme – so, day 1 is A, day 2 is B, and so on. If this sounds fun, point your browser over there – 2015 signups are now open. Be sure to link to your blog in the comments here so we can track our local writers and support each other.

Write on!

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“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”- E.E. Cummings